Bedstead-fastening



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW ROGGY, DEGEASED, (ISABELL ROGGY, ADMIN 1STRATRIX,) OF WEST HEBRON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE -HALF TO CHARLES H. MCEAGHRON, OF

ARGYLE, NEW YORK.

BEDSTEAD-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,040, dated April 12, 1881',

` Application filed November 20,1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, ANDREW ROGGY, ot' West Hebron, in the county ot' Washington and State of New York, haveinvented an Improved Bedstead-Fastening; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specilication.

Figure l is a side view of a portion of a bed post and rail provided with myim proved fast` ening; Fig. 2, a horizontal section ofthe same in a plane indicated by the line .r x, Fig. l.

Like letters designate corresponding parts I5 in both iigures.

Let C represent a bedsteadpost, and H a side rail to be fastened thereto, ready for unfastening at any time. The endet' the railis provided with dowel-pins or tenons K K, t0

2o tit into corresponding holes or mortises in the side of the post. These pins keep the rail in position and prevent side as well as vertical movement or displacement.

My improved fastening is constructed substantially as follows:

A block, B, is provided to tit against the inside ot' the bedstead-post, having a considerable vertical extent., as shown,'or sufficient to give all necessary strength to the fastening.

3o This is provided with two or more dowel-pins, D D, which enter holes in the side of the bed stead-post, so that the block may be readily inserted and removed, but may hold against lateral pull or strain in the direction ot' the v3 5 rail to be fastened. A horizontal arm, A, projects from this block along the inner surface of the rail, as shown, and for the purpose of fastening it extends through the mortise E ot' a mortise-block, Gr, securely fastened to the 4o inside of the rail by pins or screws I I. This arm has a notch, J, in the side next to the rail, to receive a key or wedge, L, which wedges between the outer edge of the notch and the adjacent edge ofthe mortise-block 1G.

The action ofthe fastening is obvious, and is similar to that of other fastenings in use.

My removable block B, bearing the fastening-arm A, is, while the bedstead remains fastened together, securely held from withdrawal by the mortise-block Gr and the dowel-pins K of the rail but when the bedstead is ytaken apart this block, with its arm, is readily removed, so that the parts may be packed in smaller space and without danger of breaking oi'the arm A. l This blockB also furnishes a very strong fastening by having an extended bearing-surface on the post. Thus the bedstead is held firmly and will not rack, as will bedsteads provided with fastenings having little bearing-surface.

Another feature of' advantage in this fastening, lparticularly in the block B, is the extreme cheapness of its construction. The block is best made of wood,- with wooden duivel-pins D D glued into holes thereof', and the wooden arm A fitted and glued into adovetail notch cut in one side. This costs buta trifle at a manufactory. The arm A also is simplynotched at J to receive the wooden wedge L, and the mortise-block G is simply of wood, with a mortisenotch, E, cut in one side 5 but the construction Ot' the parts A and Gr is not new with me.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent7 is The removable block B, bearing the fastening-arm A, and held on the bedstead-post by dowel-pins D D, in combination with the rail H and mortise-block G, substantially as and for the purpose herein specitied.

4 ANDREW ROGGY.

Witnesses HENRY C. MADISON, LEVI GOPELAND. 

